LA BASILICA DI SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE Tourist Souvenir Guide, is the 1st Edition published in 1987, bound with gloss covers, and all text inside is in 5-LANGUAGES! Very Good Condition with minor age-yellowing. Full-color pages are filled with building history, architecture and art info and facts of this most famous church in Rome. Size 10 x 7 inch, 72 pages. Printed in Italy.
HISTORY OF THE BASILICA: The construction of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore began in the 5th century at the request of Pope Sixtus III and following the Council of Ephesus, which gave the Virgin Mary the title of Theotokos, “Mother of God. It is an architectural patchwork combining Paleochristian, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque influences!"
